GMAT Ninja’s 13-Week Study Plan Subscribe via E-mail | Study Plan Chat Group | More Study Plans Please use the new GMAT Focus plan here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-ninja-1 ... 37774.html Full Study Plan Schedule: Study Plan Week 1 (this post - you are here) Study Plan Week 2 Study Plan Week 3 Study Plan Week 4 Study Plan Week 5 Study Plan Week 6 Study Plan Week 7 Study Plan Week 8 Study Plan Week 9 Study Plan Week 10 Study Plan Week 11 Study Plan Week 12 Study Plan Week 13 Week 1 (~15 hours) Welcome to our “one-size-fits-most”, 13-week GMAT study plan, based on our decades of experience as GMAT tutors. (Yes, decades. Charles is old.) Here’s what you’re getting yourself into: Bad news: no study plan fits everybody perfectly . We’ve designed this one with a reasonably typical GMAT Club member in mind: a test-taker scoring somewhere in the 500s or 600s, with aspirations of a 700+ and weaknesses on both quant and verbal. If you’re in a different situation, you’ll need to alter the plan to suit your needs. We expect you to spend approximately 15 hours per week studying for the GMAT: roughly 2 hours per weekday, and maybe a bit more on the weekends. Our goal is to help you beat the odds . The average GMAT student improves by less than 30 points when re-taking the exam , according to GMAC data. So be prepared for some serious work. We’ll repeat that last part: be ready to work HARD . If you're not dedicated to your GMAT studies, this isn't for you. Ready to get started? Buckle up. Watch this video first! Here’s a video that explains what the study plan is and – more importantly – how best to use it. You’ll save a ton of time in the long run if you watch the video BEFORE getting started. So please don’t skip this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZJACxpB4iQ Resources you’ll need before starting the study plan: GMAT Official Guide , Verbal Guide , and Quant Guide (the links are to the 2022 editions, but other editions are fine). An official LSAT book. ( Here’s why. ) This one would be a good choice, but any of the LSAT books with 10 full, official LSAT tests is OK. You could also buy an online subscription to the LSAT library here . Set up an error log of some sort. Here are some options , here’s an ambitious reimagining of the error log , and here’s a simplified version of the tracker we use with our private tutoring students at GMAT Ninja (to get an editable version, click File --> Make a copy). Use whichever you’d like. But use something. Here are additional practice resources you’ll eventually want to purchase, but they can wait until later in the process: Official mba.com practice exams. There are 6, and you’ll eventually want all of them. Official mba.com practice questions GMAT Club tests (or other non-official practice tests for quant only) Optional: Forum Quiz for targeted practice of some topics (optional, but recommended) GMAT simulation pad for your practice exams If you’ve already exhausted the official guides , we’d strongly recommend using older editions, such as OG 12 and the 2nd edition of the quant and verbal guides. If you have questions, feel free to ask in the thread, and we’ll do our best to help. 1. If you have NOT taken the GMAT or any official practice tests: take mba.com test #1 The goal: establish a baseline score so that you know how far you are from your target. When you’re finished, please don’t review or redo individual questions , since you might want to retake this exam in a month or two, and it’s best if you don’t remember the questions well. It is, however, OK to take a broad look at your struggles. Did you miss far more questions of one type than another? Are you significantly farther from your score goal on one section than the other? For more, please read the 2nd post in this thread . 2. If you have an Enhanced Score Report from an actual GMAT exam, please make sure that you understand what it’s telling you. This 4-minute video will help you analyze your GMAT ESR if you have one . If you’ve never taken the GMAT -- or you don’t have an ESR -- no problem. Just skip this task, and everything will be fine. 3. Figure out how many points you’d like to gain on the quant and verbal sections. If you need to gain FAR more points on one section than the other, use that information to guide your studies. If you’re weaker at verbal, please do less quant homework, and spend more time on “optional” verbal assignments and videos. If you’re weaker in quant, you’ll want to do exactly the opposite. That’s it. If you’ve recently taken official practice (or actual) tests and you understand how far you are from your goals, that’s great – just move on to the homework. You’re probably going to hate this. We have only two goals on quant in Week 1: 1. Ensure that you NEVER make sloppy errors.2. Check on your arithmetic and algebra foundations. Here’s why: 1. On an adaptive test like the GMAT, careless errors can DESTROY your score. To learn why, check out this video on GMAT time management (6 mins.) or this one on score-killing errors (59 mins.).2. If you’re unhappy with your quant score, you’re probably making careless errors. And you probably don’t pay enough attention to them.3. Arithmetic and/or algebra are embedded in nearly every quant question, and if those fundamentals are shaky, you’ll be in trouble. I know: not sexy. You probably won’t enjoy this. But if you do well, the homework will get more interesting next week. How to approach quant homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through. Do every set with test-like intensity, but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet.2. When you’re finished, please do NOT review your errors at all just yet. On the day you do the homework, just input the results into your error log, and walk away. Week 1 quant homework By design, these sets are mostly short, and they should FEEL easy. So you shouldn’t make any mistakes at all, right? Um... right? 1. (Optional, but recommended) Do set of 10 general systems of linear equations, which you can generate here. If you’re not efficiently getting 100% of them right (in less than 1.5 mins on average), keep doing sets of 10 until you can ace them.2. (Optional) If you’re rusty on quadratics factoring, solve this set of 10 basic quadratic equations. If you need more practice, you can generate more worksheets here; select as many "Quadratics --> simple factorable" exercises as you need. 3. Official Guide (any edition) Problem Solving #1-254. 1st 25 Data Sufficiency questions from the Official Guide. (The DS question numbers will vary depending on which edition you’re using.)5. A set of 20 sub-600 algebra & arithmetic problem solving questions, available here6. A set of 20 sub-600 algebra & arithmetic data sufficiency questions, available here7. A set of 15 sub-600 coordinate geometry PS questions, available here8. A set of 15 sub-600 coordinate geometry DS questions, available here9. (Very, very optional) Quant section only from the GMAT Club tests or another NON-official source (save the mba.com exams for later!) What to do AFTER completing a quant homework set 1-3 days after completing the set, redo your errors from scratch. Do your best to “wash your brains” and pretend that you’ve never seen the questions before. If you get most of the questions RIGHT the second time: you’re probably making careless errors, and fixing them needs to be your #1 area of focus. See below for some videos that might help. If you miss a question twice, don’t overreact. Obsessively studying individual questions drains a TON of your study time – if you miss a particular question, you’ll probably never see anything quite like it again. So focus on GENERAL takeaways on how to improve -- don’t spend hours memorizing steps for individual questions. For more on how to interpret your results, see the next post in this thread . Need help with quant? If you make careless errors or struggle on the content this week, these resources might help: 1. If you’re making careless errors, this algebra video describes a process for approaching ALL quant questions, starting at the 1:01 mark.2. If you’re struggling with the fundamental content this week, check out this GMAT arithmetic video, this algebra video, or this coordinate geometry video.3. GMAT Club Math Book: full pdf | algebra section | coordinate geometry section4. Heroic quant threads from Bunuel: Ultimate GMAT Quant Megathread | Signature Question Collection | All You Need for Quant In Week 1, your goal is to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to GMAT RC questions. We’ll start with a video and article to help you understand how to approach RC passages, and then give you some nice long, hard RC sets so that you can put our advice into practice. How to approach RC homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through. Do every set with test-like intensity, but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet.2. When you’re finished, please do NOT review your errors at all just yet. On the day you do the homework, just input the results into your error log, and walk away. Week 1 RC homework 1. Watch this video on the fundamentals of RC or read this beginner’s guide to RC, which covers the same principles. (~ 1 hr.)2. Do a full LSAT RC set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr). Click here to learn why we assign LSAT sets for GMAT students.3. (Optional, but recommended) One more LSAT RC set 4. (Optional) Do 3-4 passages from older editions of the OGs; you can find some from OG 12 and the Verbal 2nd edition here. What to do AFTER completing an RC homework set Don’t obsess over the questions you missed. You’re never going to see these passages again, and you don’t want to waste too much time reviewing them. Instead, focus on general patterns. Did you miss a bunch of primary purpose questions? Inference questions? Did you get intimidated by certain types of passages? Did you panic? Run out of energy? Pay special attention to errors that surprised you – did you somehow make a silly mistake? If you missed three or more questions on a particular passage, you might consider redoing the entire passage from scratch. If you do better the second time, ask yourself: what should you have done differently the first time? For more on how to interpret your RC results, the 2nd post in this thread . Need help with RC? If you struggled with your RC homework sets this week, here are some resources that might help: Beginner’s guide to RC YouTube video on how to approach RC , or a similar, newer RC basics video . All GMAT Ninja RC resources More RC explanations than anybody should ever read A whole lot of YouTube videos If you read the RC section above, this is going to sound very, very familiar. In Week 1, your goal is to develop a consistent, repeatable approach to GMAT CR questions. We’ll start with a video and article, and follow that with some HARD practice. Enjoy! How to approach CR homework 1. Time each set, but don’t rush through. Do every set with test-like intensity, but don’t impose an artificial time limit -- at least not yet.2. When you’re finished, please do NOT review your errors at all just yet. On the day you do the homework, just input the results into your error log, and walk away. Week 1 CR homework 1. Watch this video on the fundamentals of CR or read this beginner’s guide to CR, which covers the same ideas. (~ 1 hr.)2. Do a full LSAT CR set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr). Click here to learn why we assign LSAT sets for GMAT students.3. (Optional, but recommended) One additional LSAT CR set (~25 questions, ~ 1 hr)4. (Very optional) Do 15-20 CR from older editions of the OGs; you can find some from OG 12 and the Verbal 2nd edition here. What to do AFTER completing a CR homework set 1-3 days after completing the set, redo your errors from scratch. Do your best to “wash your brains” and pretend that you’ve never seen the questions before. If you get most of the questions RIGHT the second time, that’s a sign that your overall CR process isn’t nearly as consistent as it needs to be, and fixing your process needs to be your #1 area of focus. See below for some videos that might help. 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Hi Charles, thank you so much for putting this plan together. A quick question, where can I find the skinny little book that you are referring to, for the verbal section? If you could provide the exact name of the book, that would be great.

The official title is GMAT Official Guide Verbal Review, and here's a link to the 2022 version (which includes SC) and here's the 2023 edition (which is SC-free, in honor of the new GMAT). All of the books you'll need are also listed in the "what you'll need" section of the study plan.

I hope that helps a bit, and have fun studying!

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Thank you GMAT Ninja for the response. I actually meant to ask for Quant and not Verbal. I do have an older version of Official Guide (2021) that I'm using for the preparation. In some of the study plans, I do see the list of items like the following. Are these 2 referring to the same OG? Or are they referring to 2 different versions of the OG?

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They're totally different books. This is the Quant Guide (technically, the GMAT Official Guide Quantitative Review) -- a skinny little volume. This is the "main" GMAT Official Guide -- a much thicker object.

Links to all of the books are also provided in the "what you'll need" section of the week 1 study plan.

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Hi GMATNinja I am in week 5 of the study plan and am still making careless errors in 10-15% of quant questions. I have tried figuring out why it's happening. I have gone through the video you recommended as well. But I can't seem to think of any solution to fix this.

I know it's very important to deal with this issue but I am unsure of how to go about it. Is it because I lack concentration? I am kinda lost now

There's no easy answer to this, unfortunately. I could say somewhat generically that you're struggling with your process for tackling questions -- I'll bet anything that you're not reading the question twice before you launch in, you probably jump into the first solution path that comes to mind, you don't always check your work as you go... and reading the question one more time at the end would probably help, too.

But you probably knew all of that. The hard part isn't knowing what you SHOULD do. It's actually getting yourself to do it, with 100% consistency. It's really challenging to change your test-taking habits, and to learn to do things differently. And there's no magic bullet for doing so -- basically, the goal is to figure out how to remind yourself to do something differently every time.

Yes, concentration could be part of the picture. Any number of things could affect your concentration -- lack of sleep, low blood sugar, barking dogs, ADHD, and so on -- and I have no idea whether any of those are the issue for you. For now, I would just think of it this way: dedicate yourself 100% to implementing the process we describe in this video, and see if a laser-focus on it helps the careless errors at all. Usually, when a student truly dedicates themselves to improving their process and wiping out sloppy errors, good things happen.

I hope that helps a bit, and good luck with all of this!

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Thanks a lot for your guidance GMATNinja
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Hi GMATNinja, I'm going through the Quant week one sub-600 algebra & arithmetic problem solving questions and I am getting absolutely crushed and need help! What do I do???

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Hello Charles, actually I'm not able to open the very first link for 10 linear equations question. Moreover thank you so much for this perfect plan, I've been preparing for GMAT since June 2023 but now I got it that my approach was incorrect.

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Thanks for such wonderful work. Will you please tell me how I can tweak this plan if I am planning to sit for the focus edition?

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Thanks for such wonderful work. Will you please tell me how I can tweak this plan if I am planning to sit for the focus edition?

Thank you for the kind words, MohamedNofal!

If you're planning to take the GMAT Focus Edition instead, you could start with a pair of simple tweaks to the plan:

At some point, we'll likely update the study plan to reflect the changes to the GMAT exam. We'll figure that out after we publish a nice series of Data Insights videos -- coming soon.

Have fun studying!

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Thank you so much Charles GMATNinja , you are a lifesaver. Can you please guide us through how to go about the prep of IR and what are some good resources to practice for IR questions.

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Thank you so much Charles GMATNinja , you are a lifesaver. Can you please guide us through how to go about the prep of IR and what are some good resources to practice for IR questions.

Thank you for the kind words!

Data Insights and IR questions are a bit like verbal, in a way: I would strongly recommend sticking with official resources for those. So lean on the OGs and the official mba.com online practice questions if you need more reps with IR or Data Insights. We'll also have a fleet of Data Insights prep videos coming out in the next month or two, including a live series on GMAT Club's YouTube channel in early October -- so stay tuned for those.

I hope that helps a bit!

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Thank you so much!! I'm in Week 9 and marching towards the exam next month

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I might be asking a dumb question here, but is the quant and verbal homework’s per day? Or by the end of week the work should be done?
I m getting confused by the “ 1-3 days after completing the set, redo your errors from scratch”

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It's the total amount of work that you should have done by the end of the week. Error correction and review don't count in the total time (although they won't usually take that long).

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It's the total amount of work that you should have done by the end of the week. Error correction and review don't count in the total time (although they won't usually take that long).

Ahh thanks a lot!!

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